Jump Rope Simulator about to hit the market

NEW ALBANY, IN.(WDRB) -- Around Kentuckiana with U of L, UK, and IU, there are plenty of elite athletes.

There is now a unique training device those athletes could soon be using, an idea that sprang from the mind of a former soccer player.

"There are treadmills for running, ellipticals for cross training, but there has not been a device for simulating the activity of jumping rope," says Vaughan Scott.

Scott, who was a soccer player in college and jumped rope to stay in shape and increase his foot speed is about to launch a new exercise machine called the DigiJump.

"Jumping rope had always been something I enjoyed," says Scott, "and it really helped me to identify the fact that there was not a device that existed that could replicate that activity."

Scott's real job is a financial advisor. But he has devoted almost a decade with a team of engineers to develop the DigiJump.

He says it can measure foot speed, coordination, and vertical jumps.

Scott and his team have acquired five patents and will soon begin selling the product to a select group of customers.

Scott explains, "It mainly will be strength coaches as well as trainers and any folks who are working in Division One or Two of college sports and certainly at the Olympic and professional levels as well."

Scott will display his invention to a convention of strength and conditioning coaches in Las Vegas next month.

"We are really excited about it and we are excited to finally bring it to market," says Scott.